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Dayworld was born from the overpopulation and chaos of the late 21st century: live just one day out of seven, spend the rest in a suspended animation called stoning, and humanity will only need one-seventh of the resources it was consuming on its dyi...

When a mild-mannered college professor declares himself a god and takes over an Illinois town, declaring it his own Garden of Eden, what can be done? Especially when bullets and bombs refuse to explode and every man sent in to end the crisis doesn't ...

ABOUT THIS BOOK...A collection of Wold Newton-inspired short stories by Farmerphiles, experts, and the Grand Master of SF himself.A real meteorite fell near Wold Newton, Yorkshire, England, on December 13, 1795, and was found to be radioactive, causi...

They were known simply as the Nine - grim and ancient rulers who thirty thousand years ago had discovered the key to eternal life and ever since had secretly held the world in thrall.Once, Doc Caliban had been their servant and had shared their secre...

Opar, the lost colony of Atlantis, is hidden deep in the heart of Africa, awash with incredible riches. From this ancient city comes Hadon, an impoverished but ambitious young man who sets out to win the great games of Klakor, and thus become king of...

Viscount Grandrith, also known as the Lord of the Jungle and the legendary Apeman, proposes to tell all, relating the truth about the origins of The Nine, the elixir that grants near eternal youth and superhuman strength, and the struggles between th...

Holmes and Watson take to the skies in the quest of the nefarious Von Bork and his weapon of dread... A night sky aerial engagement with the deadly Fokker nearly claims three brilliant lives... And an historic alliance is formed, whereby Baker Street...

This first posthumous collection of the short fiction of Philip Jose Farmer is a celebration of the impressive variety of his prodigious output, from the space adventures he published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s through the 1970s, t...

No man had yet survived a landing on the black planet, till Raspold dared to venture his body and his mind in the cavern of Voittamaton, where the dracocentaurs gazed at some fabulous yonder! Farmer’s variation on the Chthulu Mythos of Lovecraft. F...

In the tradition of the old "Ace Doubles" two-in-one books (flip one over to read the second title) -- here is the third Wildside Double . . . "Rastignac the Devil," by Philip Jose Farmer and "Despoilers of the Golden Empire," by Randall Garrett. Two...

Patricia Wildman, the daughter of the world-renowned adventurer and crimefighter of the 1930s and '40s, Dr. James Clarke "Doc" Wildman, is all alone in the world when she inherits the family estate in Derbyshire, England-in true Gothic tradition, old...

Though Earthmen first landed on the planet Dare 300 years earlier, they were still bound by the same standards of snobbery and fear... until Jack Cage, eldest son of a wealthy human, found himself strangely drawn to a spectacularly beautiful native....

The Other in the Mirror brings together three classic novels by Philip José Farmer: Fire and the Night, Jesus on Mars, and Night of Light. All three are united by one of SF s central tropes, that of The Other.Fire and the Night is a mainstream novel...

Through the tales of Edgar Rice Burroughs, generations of readers have thrilled to the adventures of Lord Greystoke (aka John Clayton, but better known as Tarzan of the Apes). In this biography Philip Jose Farmer pieces together the life of this fant...

At last--after decades--one of the most famous heroes in literature is back! Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, returns with a vengeance in this brand-new, action-packed adventure by Philip José Farmer, Hugo Award-winning author of the incredible Riverworld ...

This one is for fans of Quentin Tarantino and of the ever-present gratuitous violence of Robert Altman. It is a direct descendant of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer and the mystery action pulps epitomized by Black Mask. Philip José Farmer, now one of ...

The Tiers series chronicles the adventures of both Robert Wolff, a man from our world transported through space-time to a cosmos with dimensions and laws different from our own, and Kickaha the Trickster (a.k.a. Paul J. Finnegan, also from our contem...

Robert Wolff, 66, had opened the door -- to discover not a closet, but another world. It was an Eden populated by strange and lovely creatures, and after living there a few days, Wolff actually grew young again. He saw no reason to return to Earth; t...

Philip José Farmer applies his unique brand of sci-fi to create a thrilling post-apocalyptic America!Space Commander Stagg explored the galaxies for 800 years. Upon his return, the hero Stagg is made the centerpiece of an incredible public ritual, o...

Kickaha, a freedom-seeking wanderer from the planet Earth, meets his arch enemy, the most powerful of the decadent interstellar lords, Lord Red Orc, in a final battle that will determine the fate of the universes...

By the banks of a ten-million-mile river, everyone who has ever died enjoys a new life, in a collection of science fiction stories--by Harry Turtledove, George Alec Essinger, and Philip Jose+a7 Farmer, among others. Original....

In this compilation of short stories, history meets the future as everyone who has ever lived awakens in Riverworld. Authors featured in the collection include Phillip C. Jennings, Harry Turtledove and Ed. Gorman....

A collection of short science fiction takes readers on a voyage through time with St. Francis, into a brutal future city where sterilization is the only cure to poverty, and to a struggle between alien beings and the IRS. Original....

About a hundred years ago, a group of mutant supermen began playing a major role in our affairs. It is no accident that Tarzan, Sherlock Holmes, Captain Nemo, and Doc Savage were (are?) contemporaries. Nor was it accidental that their biographers tit...

Simon Wagstaff narrowly escapes the Deluge that destroys Earth when he happens upon an abandoned spaceship. A man without a planet, he gains immortality from an elixir drunk during an interlude with a cat-like alien queen. Now Simon must chart a 3,00...

Resurrected on the lush, mysterious banks of Riverworld, along with the rest of humanity, Samuel Langhorne Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain) has a dream: to build a riverboat that will rival the most magnificent paddle-wheelers ever navigated on the mighty...

The answers behind the enigmatic origins of Riverworld lie at last within reach, as the remarkable gathering of Earthlings--including Sir Richard Francis Burton, Samuel Clemens, Alice Liddell Hargreaves (the real-life Alice in Wonderland), Cyrano de ...

WWII bomber pilot Roger Two Hawks, an Iroquois Indian, is shot down over enemy territory. Hilt when he parachutes down to earth, he lands in no entry he's ever heard of before. The locals don't look or speak like Romanians, but instead more closely r...

Ballantine, 1972. First edition of this title, wherein Farmer revisits the Tarzan theme, this time with time travel. Later revised and expanded - the new edition was published by Ballantine Del Rey in 1977....

Every bit as appealing as the Riverworld saga, this brilliant high-concept dystopian novel features an overpopulated Earth under strict government control ( Booklist ) . Only by being watched may you become free. It's 3414 AD, the rise of th...

All they knew was that one of the dreamed Bellers had escaped to Earth, and so Kickaha and Jadawin's beautiful sister, Anana, had joined forces to track the evil one down. Their mission was far more dangerous than either of them expected, however. Fo...

Whether it is in the inventiveness of his science fiction or the charades of his literary revisionism, Philip José Farmer's work has always been characterized by humor, psychological playfulness and sexuality. Winner of the highest accolades in scie...

Kickaha had made a life for himself on each of the tiers -- an existence which did occasionally cause him problems. He managed to cope with most of them without losing his innate good spirits, but the "Black Bellers" were a different story. They were...

It was a game the Lords played. Jadawin knew that his father had stolen Chryseis, the woman he loved. The only way to rescue her was to find the gateway into his father's universe and bring her back. But the portal was difficult to locate, and even i...

Night of Light
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First edition: Night of Light is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip Jose Farmer. A shorter version was published in June 1957 in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Ficti...

Thirty billion people from throughout Earth’s history have been resurrected along the great and winding waterways of Riverworld. Most began life anew—accepting without question the sustenance provided by their mysterious benefactors. But a rebell...

The Green Odyssey is an uproarious, hell-bent adventure story, combining fantasy, imagination and science, with a liberal dash of humor. It is in the best tradition of adventure science fiction, a swashbuckling tale of a resourceful spaceman who is, ...

It is capable of alaraf drive: instantaneous travel between two points of space. Three of these special ships were built to explore and make contact with the many sentient races inhabiting the universe. Suddenly, one of the ships mysteriously disappe...

The diaries of Lord Grandrith, the legendary Apeman, Lord of the Jungle and bastard son of Jack the Ripper. Blessed with unnatural long life, his power brings with it a gruesome side effect - one shared by his nemesis, the formidable Doc Caliban, Man...

This collection of stories includes: The Oögenesis of Bird City (1970); Riders of the Purple Wage (1967); Spiders of the Purple Mage [Thieves' World] (1980); The Making of Revelation, Part I (1980); The Long Wet Purple Dream of Rip van Winkle (1981)...

Flight to Opar is a fantasy novel by Philip José Farmer, first published in paperback by DAW Books in June 1976, and reprinted twice through 1983. The first British edition was published by Magnum in 1977.[1] The novel is a sequel to Farmer's earlie...

Urthona's private world was a place of sudden land shifts...of mountains that sank into valleys, and plains that rose into peaks. Kickaha was trapped there with Anana and three other reluctant companions -- and they were in desperate straits. Because...

Opar, the lost colony of Atlantis, is hidden deep in the heart of Africa, awash with incredible riches. From this ancient city comes Hadon, an impoverished but ambitious young man who sets out to win the great games of Klakor, and thus become king of...

He is the greatest hero of our time—Doc Savage! Philip José Farmer, three-time Hugo award winner and Science Fiction Grand Master, has turned his superb research and narrative skills to one of the greatest heroes of our time: Doc Savage, the bron...

Post-holocaust Paris is a pretty seedy stand-in for the original, but hat can you expect when te government's main function is Orgasm Prevention, and when the national heor is wandering around in Nowhen... But things are changing! Rumor has it that t...

NOW PHILIP JOSE FRAMERHAS TRANSLATED AND RETOLD ROSNY'S NOVEL OF HARETON IRONCASTLE'S
ADVENTURE INTO THAT HIDDEN AND TRANSFORMED VALLEY WHERE HE FOUND MONSTERS AND PRE-HUMANS NOT TO BE SEEN ANYWHERE ELSE.
IRONCASTL'S EXPEDITION OF DARING
ADVENTUE I...

Riverworld. To millions of readers it is as familiar as Earth -- this awesome planet where all humanity that ever lived, all 36 billion of us, from Tom Mix to Joan of Arc, are simultaneously reincarnated along the banks of a million-mile-river...
Th...

Fifteen billion years from now, Earth is a dying planet its skies darkened by the ashes of burned-out galaxies, its molten core long cooled.
But young Deyv of the Turtle Tribe knew nothing of his world's history or its fate. He lived only to track...

In the puritanical and overcrowded world of A.D. 3050, Hal Yarrow visits the planet Ozagen where he falls in love with a humanoid alien female whose alcoholism he tries to cure without realizing that alcohol prevents pregnancy which is deadly for her...

Ishmael, lone survivor of the doomed whaling ship Pequod, falls through a rift in time and space to a future Earth - an Earth of blood-sucking vegetation and a blood-red sun, of barren canyons where once the Pacific Ocean roared. Here too there are w...

Two complete novels and five novelettes that broke new ground in science fiction and established Philip Jose Farmer as a master of the genre: The Lovers: One of the most controversial and groundbreaking novels in science fiction. Sent by the relig...

Milton Firebrass, once Mark Twain's enemy and now his greatest ally, plans to build a giant airship that can fly to the North Pole of Riverworld. Once there, he hopes to learn the secret of the mysterious tower that dominates the landscape and find...

The Aspen Press, 1974. Hardcover with dustjacket, stated first edition. Philip Jose Farmer, writes as Dr. John H. Watson, about the meeting of Sherlock Holmes and Tarzan. This was one of several works Farmer wrote that involved Tarzan....

Signet / New American Library, 1972. One of several printings. The story: Ras Tyger has lived in the jungle for as long as he can remember. Raised by apes, he lives an idyllic existence as the lord of the jungle, gleefully hunting prey and feeding hi...

All those who ever lived on Earth have found themselves resurrected -- healthy, young, and naked as newborns -- on the grassy banks of a mighty river, in a world unknown. Miraculously provided with food, but with no clues to the meaning of their stra...

Two stories from Science Fiction Grand Master, Philip José Farmer.Heel — There's a great movie being made thousands of years in our past. The Director is Zeus and the screenplay writer is Apollo. Their actors are Achilles and the cast of the Troja...

Here is high fidelity fiction at Philip José Farmer's storytelling best. It's a vibrant, distractingly different tale of three centuries into the future. And as you read you'll have a vague, uneasy feeling that it's all taking place somewhere in the...

Hunger and sleepless nights had knobbed his cheekbones and honed his chin to a sharp point. An almost visible air clung to him, a hot aura that seemed to result from veins full of lava and eyeballs spilling out a heat that could not be held within hi...